transformers versus mtl

[Ross Paterson]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:48:34AM -0000, Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
> I think this makes perfect sense where the monad transformer types
> are not externally visible. I'm just concerned about what to do with
> packages where the types are part of the interface - it would be best
> to coordinate this to some extent to avoid incompatibilities.

Hmm, there seem to be over a hundred such packages.

The monads-fd and monads-tf packages use the same module names, which
will create incompatibilities if both appear in interfaces.  I'm not
sure what to do there.  transformers+monads-fd tries to mirror mtl,
so maybe monads-tf has to move.